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WORD OF ADMONITION:
"And about that time, there arose during that season no small disturbance..."
Acts 19:23
For the truth-seeker, life is filled with heart-rending controversy. After all, real Scriptural Truth always runs contrary to religious and local church traditions. As peacefully as they endeavor to live with all men, God’s true believers have always been embroiled in controversy.
It is a part of the hardness that a good soldier of Christ Jesus must face, standing against the flow of a “church world” that piously worships a god of their own making, truths of their own liking, and men of their own choosing.
THIS WEEK’S CHURCH
CATCHPHRASE
“Full-Time Ministry”
1) A pastor’s means of living; his employment; 2) To be received humbly and without questioning by the masses.
“I have 50 years of experience in this full-time ministry. How dare you question me!”
Simple Truth is never afraid
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THIS WEEK'S BIBLE VERSE
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Jeremiah 13:23
See the truth come to life!
THIS WEEK'S
"The Pastoral Office"
“Wisdom is listening to your pastor and following his lead!”
THE IMPACT
The impact of an abusive local institutional church cult is devastating. It will destroy any individual personality and replace the void with a cultic persona that no longer questions, thinks critically, or feels.
It creates an army of servile robots who blindly follow their leader(s) – leader(s) who often fits the description of a sociopath.
You struggle to make “your calling and election sure” as you are repeatedly wounded and kept off balance by the constant haranguing and condemnation from the pulpit.
In the end, all spiritual joy, peace and assurance are destroyed, not only in the lives of the followers, but in the leaders themselves, who, ironically, by their distorted efforts to promote themselves, have lost themselves.
Does the majority of your fellowship with other Christians only occur once a week?